From the Arizona Daily Star:

U.S. Border Patrol agents were involved in two violent incidents with drug smugglers Wednesday and Thursday in downtown Nogales.

On Wednesday night at 10 p.m. east of the Dennis DeConcini port of entry, agents using a remote video surveillance system — a stand-alone 60-foot pole that holds four cameras — spotted three people carrying bundles, said Mike Scioli, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.
They lost sight of the trio as they made their way into a housing development butshortly after, spotted a sport utility vehicle leaving the area.

Agents tried to stop the black Ford Explorer as it headed south toward Mexico at high speeds. The vehicle came to a stop near the border and agents saw a a the driver get out and jump over the fence into Mexico, Scioli said.

Then, agents heard a yell followed by a volley of gunfire from Mexico. Agents took cover and were unable to identify the gunmen or if they shots were aimed at them, he said..
They called Mexican authorities who responded to the area but didn’t find the gunmen. Agents found three bundles of marijuana inside the sport utility vehicle weighing 158 pounds, Scioli said.

A few hours later, at 1 a.m. Thursday, camera operators spotted three men climbing the border fence at Short Street east of the Dennis Deconcini port of entry, he said. An agent driving an armored Border Patrol vehicle known as a “war wagon” responded to the area and was peppered by rocks from south of the line. He countered by using his pepper ball launcher to saturate the area, Scioli said.

The article goes on to relate the number of violent assaults on American Border Patrol agents since October 1st is 132. We don’t pay them enough.

This comes on the heels of an incident where Border Patrol had to fire at a truck barreling down on them to keep from being run down.

Up to 600 Black and Latino students were involved in racially tinged violence at the Locke High School in South Los Angeles. The riot was described as the worst violence many of the faculty had ever seen in a high school plagued with violence and what the L.A. authorities are euphemistically calling “tagging crews.” It took 60 officers, some in riot gear, to restore order and only four arrests were made. One of the arrested was a non-student carrying a knife.

From The L.A. Times:

A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs.

The troubled campus in South Los Angeles was locked down after the fight broke out at 12:55 p.m., as students returned from lunch to their fifth-period classes. Overwhelmed school officials called Los Angeles police for help, but students and faculty said it took about half an hour before dozens of officers, many in riot gear, restored order.

“The kids were crazy, running from place to place, jumping on other kids,” said Reggie Smith, the school’s band director, who said he ran to pull his students from the melee. “Some of my kids were crying because they were walking to class with friends and they got jumped.”

Los Angeles Unified School District police said that there are only two officers assigned to Locke but that the school police force brought in about 60 officers after receiving word of the brawl. The Los Angeles Police Department also dispatched more than a dozen patrol cars and about 50 officers.

Susan Cox, an LAUSD spokeswoman, said police arrested four people — three students for fighting and one non-student for illegal possession of a knife. Four students were treated in the school nurse’s office for minor injuries.

The campus at 111th and San Pedro streets has long been one of the city’s most troubled. This school year has been particularly difficult, with near-daily fights — albeit on a much smaller scale — during much of the fall and winter. Locke is about to be reorganized as a cluster of charter schools run by Green Dot Public Schools, which will take over in July, and some faculty and staff have accused the district of letting the campus drift in its final year as a traditional public school.

“Morale has really dropped because they don’t feel like they have everybody behind them,” cheerleading coach Marlo Jenkins said recently. “There are just fights upon fights upon fights now.”

Not the kind of leadership needed in areas where the growing tensions between Blacks and Latinos is creating a culture of racist warfare. Locke High School is 65% Latino and 35% black, and though many students say there isn’t much open hostility the people interviewed in the article admit to both self-segregation of the groups and near constant “black on brown” fights. The actions of the police after restoring order should tell you how bad the situation really is in Los Angeles despite the rosy picture many try to paint regarding race relations:

After securing order, authorities rounded up the students who hadn’t returned to class and segregated them by race, holding Latinos in the boys gym and African American students in Hobbs Hall, the school’s multipurpose room.

Beginning at 2 p.m., school officials began releasing students in small groups to go home. The school remained on lockdown until the last group had left about 3:15 p.m.

LAUSD’s Cox said that there would be an enhanced police presence at Locke during school hours next week and that the district would send human relations staff to the school to talk to students.

In recent years, melees have broken out periodically at many campuses with a black and Latino presence, including in Los Angeles, Lynwood and Compton. There have been fights between Latinos and Armenians in other areas that led to campus lockdowns.

Soon we’ll end up with segregated schools. The Latino vs. Armenian violence mentioned is a problem that has been going on since the 90s apparently, with a gang called Armenian Power forming up specifically to protect Armenians from Latino gang violence. A.P. is small but extremely violent and have fought MS-13 on occasion. In ‘05 there was a riot in Grant High School involving Latinos and Armenians.

If the youth in Los Angeles is any indication then race relations in America are getting much worse. The fact that authorities can barely control the groups involved make America’s future look bleak indeed.

There’s a video report from the local ABC affiliate. Breitbart has a nuts and bolts report.

Preliminary reports are that 37-year-old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez is likely illegal, so my post will be much decried by people who will say I’m a racist and that it doesn’t matter where Gutierrez-Juarez was from in the first place. Aside from the fact that had our border been secure he’d never had access to the victim I would put forward that if a person comes from a country where children as young as twelve are allowed to “consent” to sex (like Mexico for example) it is reasonable to expect that without pressure to assimilate that person may well begin violating children.

From Fox News:

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho — A suspected illegal immigrant has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who later gave birth in eastern Idaho.

The girl gave birth less than two weeks ago by caesarian section at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Fremont County Sheriff Ralph C. Davis and other authorities said. Officials would not disclose the gender, date of birth or paternity of the baby.

“I wouldn’t have believed a 10-year-old could conceive in the first place,” Davis said.

A hospital spokeswoman would not discuss the condition of the girl or the baby and would not say whether either was still in the hospital Wednesday.

The story was first reported by KIDK Television in Idaho Falls.

St. Anthony police began investigating on April 28 after medical officials reported a pregnant child, and Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, 37, of St. Anthony, was arrested the same day, Police Chief James Smith said.

“We had good information from witnesses,” Smith said.

In documents that were filed April 29 in 7th District Court and obtained by The Associated Press, Gutierrez-Juarez is charged with one count of rape. He remained in jail with bail set at $250,000 pending a preliminary hearing May 13.

Authorities said Gutierrez-Juarez did not have legal documentation to live in the United States. His home town and nationality were not immediately clear, but police said they had received no complaints about him before investigating the pregnancy.

I’ve blogged before about Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin’s essay Importing Misogyny which talks about the relation to violent sex crimes like this and non-assimilation by immigrants from countries where women are sexualized early and considered property. Her essay covers misogyny from a variety of cultures including Islamic ones. But her analysis of South American misogyny is more relevant here:

First, take the concept of ‘rapto.’ This comes from Mexico where in some areas, it is socially acceptable for a man of any age to abduct a female of any age as long as long as he intends to marry her. That is right. Men can kidnap and rape females. This is acceptable in Oaxaca where the government continues to view rapto as a minor crime. One legislator even referred to this horrid violation as “romantic.” Lest anyone believe such garbage, note that 24 year old Mexican immigrant Eliseo Nunez snatched a 12 year old girl and took her to Mexico to fulfill his erotic desires. Isn’t that romantic?

The fact is that South American male attitudes toward females are often archaic and misogynistic. Thus it is not surprising that the U.S. is seeing more attacks against women and little girls committed by these immigrants. In August 2005, illegal immigrant Jose Ramirez from El Salvador was charged with the violent attack of a 15 year old girl who refused to respond when he whistled at her (Roh, 2005). Perhaps such primitive behavior stems from the homeland culture. El Salvador and Guatemala have had a string of unsolved brutal murders where young females have been abducted and cut apart. Authorities have found body parts, including heads scattered around. In one instance, two female heads were deposited right in front of a local police station, blood still oozing from the severed heads (Miles, 2003). Gangs are suspected in these crimes as it is often part of their initiation to kill.

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If you are not yet disgusted, you will be. Not only are criminal immigrants coming from cultures that are misogynistic, but they are changing U.S. culture in response to their sickness. Many illegal aliens join violent gangs which take over neighborhoods and terrorize innocent citizens. These gangs are highly organized with tentacles spread through several countries. The mantra of the deadly MS13 gang is: blood in, blood out. And the chilling effects of the illegal aliens participation in these gangs are very far reaching. For example, on December 19, 2002, Victor Cruz, Jose Hernandez, Armando Juvenal, and Carlos Rodriguez were involved with the drawn out gang rape of an unsuspecting 42 year old New York woman. These illegal aliens were well known to police for their prior crimes of assault, attempted robbery, drug offenses, and illegal gun possession. No deportation followed their lesser offenses because of the sanctuary policy.

Looking the other way has consequences, and while America looked the other way a little girl had her innocence stolen by a person whose presence here stops law-abiding, American loving immigrants from Latin America from being able to obtain a visa immigrate here legally. While good honest people wait for years to to get to this county we let Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez cut in front of them, jump our border and rape a 10-year-old girl.

There’s much talk about compassion for immigrants, where is the compassion for the ones left out in the cold while child rapists roam the streets of our cities.

Lilo thinks it’s suspicious that the parents didn’t realize the 10-year-old was pregnant, which is a good point:

The investigation into the rape is ongoing and police have left the option for more charges to be filed open. There has been little released about just how a 10 year old could be sexually abused, become pregnant from it- and for it to go unnoticed until the child delivered the baby. I’m personally wondering where the parents were in all of this- and if charges will be pressed against any other individuals who may have either been involved, or who neglected to act when the child became pregnant.

Over at Hot Air, Allahpundit is preparing for the inevitable lambasting the right will get over “demogoging” this issue:

My deepest apologies to amnesty shills everywhere for even bringing his status up. Hopefully it’ll turn out he’s a citizen so we can all breathe a sigh of relief and be comfortably outraged by the crime; otherwise this is destined to end up on “Geraldo At Large” as one of those segments in which our fearless host spends six of the seven minutes devoted to it explaining why immigration politics have absolutely, positively nothing whatsoever to do with the matter — even though in theory stronger enforcement would have kept this guy out of the country in the first place.

Breitbart has a video report.

Here’s a scary report from The Chron concerning the recent armed hijacking of a big rig loaded with Diesel in Huston:

A hijacker made off with a tanker truck just as the driver was topping off the load of diesel fuel, authorities said Tuesday.

The driver was pulling away from a fueling station along Texas 225 about 3 a.m. Monday when a man, possibly armed with a pistol, jumped into the cab, authorities said.

He told the driver to head toward the South Loop and the Gulf Freeway and later switched seats before ordering the driver out of the vehicle, Houston police said.

Other than to confirm the basic details of the case, Houston Police Department officials declined to comment, citing their ongoing investigation.

A trucking industry security expert said actual armed hijackings are rare. Most 18-wheel thefts occur after the truck’s ignition is hot-wired or because the driver left the keys in the cab, said Jim Sutton, director of Washington, D.C.-based Highway Watch, part of the American Trucking Associations.

“It happens, but it is unusual,” Sutton said.

The truck — minus the fuel — will probably be found within the next few days, Sutton said.

“These people were after a commodity,” he said. “It’s probably a lot more profitable for the risk than pulling a bank robbery.”

How much fuel the driver was carrying was unknown. On Tuesday, the average price for a gallon of diesel in Houston was $4.125.

If the truck isn’t found, Sutton said it will probably be cannibalized for parts.

Whoever took the truck probably has some behind the wheel experience with 18-wheelers, Sutton said.

“It takes some skill driving those big tanker trucks,” he said. “If a non-trucker stole (it), there’s a very good chance they would have had an accident within a very short distance.

The locals are operating on the theory that someone wanted to sell the fuel, but with the case a few years ago of the Muslim convert run truck school that ended up being shut down by the F.B.I. this sort of information cannot help but lead one to wonder if there is some more nefarious purpose for this tanker, like ramming it and its flammable cargo into some vulnerable target.

h/t N.T.A.

Resurgent Chicano Nationalist/Marxist group the Brown Berets have announced a recruiting drive for “soldiers” to help them fight in Aztlan.

Aztlan would of course be Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. From the racist, anti-semitic Aztlan.net:

Los Angeles, Alta California - May 1, 2008 - (ACN) “The Brown Berets de Aztlan have undertaken an active campaign to recruit more soldiers and form new chapters throughout Aztlan,” said Chairman David Rico yesterday. “We will be having a series of presentations throughout the Southwest starting in San Diego on May 8, 2008,” he added.

David Rico is one of the original founders of the Brown Berets in California and was one of the Brown Beret soldiers that seized and took over land in Barrio Logan in San Diego that later became, the now world famous, “Chicano Park”.

In the first presentation in San Diego, David Rico and other Brown Berets will be speaking on what it takes to be a Brown Beret de Aztlan, what the organization believes in and on future plans. They will also be answering questions.

The first presentation is scheduled for May 8, 2008 from 6:30-9:00 p.m. at the Centro Cultural de La Raza located in Balboa Park at 2125 Park Blvd, San Diego.

After the recruitment campaign, the Brown Berets de Aztlan will be organizing caravans to the state of Arizona where our community is presently under siege by racists and other anti-immigrant elements.

The Brown Berets are a group of racist thugs who have claimed in the past to have shot down a police helicopter. Riding a wave of 60s style political activism they’ve been actively recruiting via MySpace and insinuating themselves and their anti-American rhetoric into the hard left. I have long suspected they were involved in the Columbia Minute Man riot.

The phrasing of their new recruiting drive is cause for concern. They aren’t looking for activists or supporters, but “soldiers.” Perhaps they think now is a good time to start a more, shall we say robust, campaign to “reclaim” Aztlan? Their caravans to Arizona will no doubt be a warm up for violence to come.

With the planed riots of Recreate ‘68 and the A.N.S.W.E.R. led R.N.C. protests coming up soon I’m betting a radical/criminal organization like the Brown Berets will be attempting to position themselves to take full advantage of the chaos leftist groups hope will ensue in the coming months.